Quick conviction for jailer accused of molestation

Defendant claimed boy raped him.

Updated 11:11 pm, Friday, December 9, 2011

A former Bexar County juvenile detention officer who tried to turn the tables on his accuser at his child molestation trial this week — accusing the teen of raping him — was handed a quick conviction Friday.

It took jurors slightly less than an hour to find Miles McFadden, 32, guilty of continuous sexual abuse of a child and nine lesser charges involving molestations that took place before the “continuous” charge became law in 2007.

Continuous sexual assault is one of Texas' few “super aggravated” crimes, meaning the minimum punishment is 25 years and McFadden will never be eligible for parole. The maximum possible sentence, which will be determined by state District Judge Maria Teresa Herr at a later date, is life in prison.

McFadden was arrested in July 2010 after the boy, now 17, told authorities the defendant had drugged and raped him hundreds of times since the two met when he was 11. The boy did not know McFadden through his job at the detention center.